Definitions for singulars

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singulars sin·gu·lar

Spelling: [sing-gyuh-ler]

IPA: /ˈsɪŋ gyə lər/

Singulars is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 452 anagrams from letters in singulars (agilnrssu).

Definitions for singulars

noun

1. the singular number.
2. a form in the singular.

adjective

1. extraordinary; remarkable; exceptional:
2. unusual or strange; odd; different:
3. being the only one of its kind; distinctive; unique:
4. separate; individual.
5. Grammar. noting or pertaining to a member of the category of number found in many languages that indicates that a word form has one referent or denotes one person, place, thing, or instance, as English boy and thing, which are singular nouns, or goes, a singular form of the verb go. Compare dual (def 4), plural (def 4).
6. Logic. of or relating to something individual, specific, or not general. (of a proposition) containing no quantifiers, as “Socrates was mortal.”.
7. Mathematics. of or relating to a linear transformation from a vector space to itself that is not one-to-one. of or relating to a matrix having a determinant equal to zero.
8. Obsolete. private.
9. Obsolete. single.

Origin of singulars

First recorded in 1300-50; Middle English word from Latin word singulāris. See single, -ar¹

Examples for singulars

In grammar it is a pronoun of the first person and singular number.

Eastwood is a singular screen presence, and he can be electrifying in the right role.

The entire city can seem like a singular monument to his decades in office.

From this attitude he draws a singular comic and literary power.

It is a record of singular variety and singular distinction.

As a matter of fact, we do find a singular satisfaction in the troubles of others.

He had a singular feeling that someone had been looking at him while he slept.

The address was written in a singular hand; in large, print-looking letters.

Her single and singular goal in every case is to pursue justice as determined by the law.

The singular author Don Carpenter took his own life in 1995.